<div>Language and National Identity in Africa <br>Published: 2008 <br>Publisher: Oxford University Press<br> <a href="http://www.oup.com/us">http://www.oup.com/us </a><br><br>Editor: Andrew Simpson <br>Hardback: ISBN: 9780199286744 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 150.00<br>
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199286751 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 55.00<br>Abstract:<br><br>This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. <br>Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent -- <br>
Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, <br>Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and nations <br>of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter <br>
describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and <br>the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, <br>and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the <br>
role of language in ethnic, and cultural identities. The chapters also <br>assess the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role <br>of language in ethnic conflict. Of the books authors, fifteen are from <br>
Africa, and seven from Europe and the USA. <br><br>Jargon-free, fully referenced, and illustrated with seventeen maps, this <br>book will be of value to a wide range of readers in linguistics, politics, <br>history, sociology, and anthropology. It will interest everyone wishing to <br>
understand the dynamic interactions between language and politics in <br>Africa, in the past and now. </div>
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